Cookies…
Wii…
and Markers…
…on a stormy Saturday night.
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Oh, how I wish I could capture everything that she is in words. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but not even a picture can capture the personality, the love, the intelligence, the joy, that exudes from my girl. I can’t believe how fast she is growing up.
Despite the downpour that canceled out the 4th of July fireworks and the red crayon that I found melted in my dryer, this was one of the best weekends I’ve had in a long time. At the top of the list is the fact that I got to sleep in past 10:00 a.m. three days in a row. I honestly can’t remember the last time that has happened. I’m sure I’ll still be just as tired when I have to wake up early tomorrow morning, but it was a pretty amazing feeling while it lasted.
Saturday morning hubby and I got up and started in on the kids’ room. We have been wanting to pull up the carpet in there for while and figured the 3-day weekend was a good time to do it. We started in knowing that there were wood floors underneath, but not having any idea what kind of shape they were in. As it turned out, they weren’t great but weren’t completely horrible either. We did have to scrub the entire floor on our hands and knees to remove some black gunk, but once we got it up, the floor looked pretty good.
We rearranged the furniture a bit, re-bunked the bunk beds, and put down a small area rug to cover a couple bad spots in the floor. I still need to work on the arrangement of the wall decorations, but their room looks much better than it did. The kids are loving it so far. They’ve been playing in there instead of their playroom which is very unusual.
After we finished the floor, we cleaned ourselves up, dropped the kids off at Grandma’s, and headed out on the town for a well-deserved date night. Since we never really got to celebrate our anniversary last month, we went out for a nice dinner at Jess & Jim’s Steakhouse, then I made hubby take me to see Eclipse. We don’t get out by ourselves often enough and it was really nice to have quiet (kid-free) evening together.
Sunday we headed over to my mom’s to have dinner with the family and then planned on going to see fireworks at Corporate Woods. We got there and set up our chairs just in time for it to start sprinkling. It seemed like the rain wouldn’t be too bad, so we decided to wait it out in hopes that the firework show would still go on. My kids were so excited for fireworks that I really hated to disappoint them. We stuck it out much longer than most folks, but when it started pouring and I discovered that the water was soaking through my camera bag, we decided it was time to go.
By the time we got back to the cars, we were all absolutely soaked. Fortunately, we had a basket of clean, dry clothes at my mom’s house due the the crayon in the dryer incident I mentioned earlier so we scrounged and managed to find something for all of us to wear. Once everyone was dry, we got the kids all settled down and my sister, my mom, and I headed to the theater to watch Eclipse again (Yes, it was that good!).
Since the kids were sleeping by the time we got back from the movie, we left them to sleep at Grandma’s again and hubby and enjoyed sleeping in again on Monday morning.
We picked the kids up Monday afternoon, took my mom to pick her car up from the shop, stopped for some ice cream, then came home and started mourning the end of a really excellent weekend. It’s going to be really hard to jump back into our normal routine in the morning.
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This week’s iheartfaces photo challenge theme is “All About Babies.” I haven’t participated in an iheartfaces challenge for a while for but I had to jump back in on this one. A few weeks ago I got the opportunity to do a trial photo shoot with a friend’s newborn twins. I’m still very much learning and was so nervous that I forgot some really important things, but I did get a few good shots. This one is one of my favorites. I was amazed that this little guy cooperated as well as he did while wide awake!
There are a lot more adorable babies this week over at iheartfaces! Go check them out!
2 CommentsThis week’s iheartfaces photo challenge theme is “Smiles.” One of my favorite things about photography is being able to capture a genuine smile. I get lots of forced cheesy looking grins from my kids, but when I capture a true smile born from happiness the photo usually becomes a favorite. There’s just something so energizing when you can see the joy pouring out of a photo.
This last weekend we celebrated my nephew Brayden’s 3rd birthday. His parents scored a great deal on this Power Wheels motorcycle and boy was he excited to receive it! I have a feeling he’ll be spending a lot of time outside this summer!
Need a little happiness in your day? Go check out all the other smile photos at iheartfaces!
During my last year of college I worked at a group home for developmentally disabled adults. While there were no pets allowed in the house, there were two cats that sort of adopted the porch. Eventually these two cats had a litter of kittens. They were the most beautiful kittens I had ever seen and the first I had ever seen only hours after they were born. There were only three in the litter and I had plans to keep two of them – one for me and one for my mom. A co-worker was going to keep the third one.
The momma cat eventually started weaning the kittens and we decided it was about time for them to be taken to their respective homes. I was heading home that weekend, so I had planned to take my two little furballs with me. Unfortunately, either the momma cat or the baby kittens had other plans. They disappeared the day before I was supposed to take them home. We have no idea where they went. They were just gone and I was devastated.
Not long after that, a co-worker and I were taking a group on an outing. We had the van loaded up and just as we started pulling out of the driveway, we saw this little puff of white moving around in the grass. We got out of the van to check it out and there stood the cutest little Siamese kitten. I’ve always had a thing for Siamese cats and this little guy was just too cute. He came right up to me and snuggled up in my arms. My co-worker convinced me that it was a sign and that I should take him home.
That night he was officially named Pedro (anyone want to guess where that came from?) and he’s been with me ever since. He was my “baby” before I ever had any human babies of my own and he has certainly seen me through some rough times in my life. He always just seems to know when I’m feeling down and I’ve cried into his fur more times than I can count.
I guess that’s why it is so touching to me to see Evie really connecting to our animals, and especially to Pedro. She absolutely loves Pedro. If she spots him you can bet that she’s petting or hugging him. She walks around asking “Where Pedro at?” She loves him, just as I have for all these years.
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